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Open-source code means added value for students
2007.08.15 av Hilde Pettersen
The international telemedicine students in Tromsø take back skills of great value to their local communities.
“Our strategy is to give our students something more than a university degree. For this reason, as far as we can, we use open-source code that is readily available. This enables students to continue their work on various projects when they return to their homelands. Another benefit is the network that they build here with other students and the wider telemedicine community in Tromsø,” explains Associate Professor John Gustav Bellika. Video to the doctorThe second group of master's students in telemedicine and eHealth began in the second half of 2006.During the university year, some of them have done further development work on a system created previously by researchers at the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine in Tromsø. Secure e-mail communication between patients and their regular GPs has been developed further to include functionality for sending video clips by mobile telephone. “There may be situations in which patients need to contact their doctor and attach a type of documentation other than plain text. One example is patients with attacks, where the doctor can obtain important information by looking at a video clip of the attack,” says Bellika. The information is encryptedEncryption ensures the security of the system. The patient connects the mobile telephone to the computer via Bluetooth, and the video clip can then be sent to the doctor via an Internet page. Patients must identify themselves by logging on through a secure communications system, Pasientlink.This requires a password, which is sent to the patient by SMS. When the doctor sends a reply, the patient receives an SMS message to say that he or she has received an answer and can log on to Pasientlink to read it. “By using technology based on open-source code, the students can take it with them, wherever they come from. There, they can develop or adapt the technology for the local environment in other parts of the world. In this way, we are helping to distribute telemedicine and eHealth to the whole world, thanks to open-source code,” concludes Associate Professor Johan Gustav Bellika. Contact person at NSTPlease contact Johan Gustav Bellika for further information, email johan.gustav.bellika@telemed.no or telephone + 47 957 48 049 |
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